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Birthdate: December 9, 1916
Kirk Douglas
ACTOR RANKINGS:
CAREER SPAN
Decade
Movie Score
# Movies
1940s
2.7327
8
1950s
3.0764
23
1960s
2.7175
19
1970s
2.1409
12
1980s
2.1737
6
1990s
1.6841
3
2000s
1.5743
3
Ratings and rankings are based on all available critic reviews & awards.
Overall Actor Score: 
3.1409
3.1409
Kirk Douglas Movie Rankings
1
3.6840The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack. ...more about Paths of Glory
DVD from $5.67
(13 sellers)
2
3.6087A slave, trained to be a Gladiator, insights a revolt and uprising against the corrupt Roman establishment that imprisons him and his fellow men. ...more about Spartacus
DVD from $12.87
(12 sellers)
3
3.1977Jeff Bailey, small-town gas pumper, has his mysterious past catch up with him one day when he's ordered to meet with gambler Whit Sterling. En route to the meeting, he tells girlfriend Ann his story. ...more about Out of the Past
DVD from $12.71
(11 sellers)
4
3.1636
The oceans during the late 1860-92s are no longer safe; many ships have been lost. Sailors have returned to port with stories of a vicious narwhal (a giant whale with a long horn) which sinks their ships. ...more about 20
DVD from $12.34
(12 sellers)
5
3.1396
Einar and Eric are two Viking half-brothers. The former is a great warrior whilst the other is an ex-slave, but neither knows the true identity of the other. ...more about Vikings
Actor Awards
- San Sebastián International Film Festival - Best Actor
DVD from $4.49
(11 sellers)
6
3.1017
An unpopular U.S. President manages to get a nuclear disarmament treaty through the Senate, but finds that the nation is turning against him. ...more about Seven Days in May
DVD from $9.76
(10 sellers)
7
3.0492
A director, an actress and a writer each explain why they never want to work with producer Jonathan Shields again. ...more about Bad and the Beautiful
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $13.79
(8 sellers)
8
2.9623
Lora May Hollingsway, who grew up next to the wrong side of the tracks, married her boss who thinks she is just a gold digger. Rita Phipps makes as much money writing radio scripts at night as her school teacher husband does. ...more about Letter to Three Wives
DVD from $9.27
(10 sellers)
9
2.9467
On a day in the life of the 21st Precinct detective squad, we meet a batty old lady; petty embezzler Arthur, and the wonderful girl whose unrequited love may redeem him; a pair of blustering, but dangerous, burglars; a charmingly naive shoplifter who ...more about Detective Story
Actor Awards
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
DVD from $4.94
(10 sellers)
10
2.8801
Taw Jackson returns from prison having survived being shot, to the ranch and gold that Frank Pierce stole from him. Jackson makes a deal with Lomax, the man who shot him 5 years ago to join forces against Pierce and steal a large gold shipment. ...more about War Wagon
DVD from $3.65
(13 sellers)
11
2.8543
The wife of marshal Matt Morgan is raped and murdered. The killers leave behind a distinctive saddle, that Morgan recognises as belonging to his old friend Craig Belden, now cattle baron in the town of Gun Hill. ...more about Last Train from Gun Hill
DVD from $6.34
(9 sellers)
12
2.8499
In 1928, young heiress Martha Ivers fails to run off with friend Sam Masterson, and is involved in fatal events. Years later, Sam returns to find Martha the power behind Iverstown and married to "good boy" Walter O'Neil, now district attorney. ...more about Strange Love of Martha Ivers
DVD from $3.95
(10 sellers)
13
2.8150
Vincent Van Gogh is the archetypical tortured artistic genius. His obsession with painting, combined with mental illness, propels him through an unhappy life full of failures and unrewarding relationships. He fails at being a preacher to coal miners. ...more about Lust for Life
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
- Golden Globes, USA - Best Motion Picture Actor - Drama
- New York Film Critics Circle Awards - Best Actor
DVD from $10.75
(11 sellers)
14
2.7909
Two lovers stationed at a remote base in the asteroid fields of Saturn are intruded upon by a retentive technocrat from Earth and his charge: a malevolent 8-ft robot. Remember, in space no one can hear you scream... ...more about Saturn 3
Actor Awards
- Razzie Awards - Worst Actor
- Not Available on DVD
15
2.7687
One of several literary and artistic works based on events surrounding the 1925 entrapment and death of W. Floyd Collins in Sand Cave, Ky. See also Robert Penn Warren's novel _The Cave_. ...more about Ace in the Hole
DVD from $23.99
(12 sellers)
16
2.7247
An American nuclear aircraft carrier and its crew are caught in a classic dilemma when a supernatural storm sends them back in time just before the Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour. ...more about Final Countdown
Actor Awards
- Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA - Best Actor
DVD from $11.28
(12 sellers)
17
2.6994
In 1900, unscrupulous timber baron Jim Fallon plans to take advantage of a new law and make millions off California redwood. ...more about Big Trees
DVD from $1.99
(9 sellers)
18
2.6743
In order to free his best friend Bondi, Jack Burns lets himself be imprisoned only to find out that Bondi does not want to escape. Thus Burns breaks out on his own and is afterwards being chased by sheriff Johnson with helicopters and jeeps. ...more about Lonely Are the Brave
Actor Awards
- BAFTA Awards - Best Foreign Actor
- Laurel Awards - Top Action Performance
- Not Available on DVD
19
2.6575
Aimless youth Rick Martin learns he has a gift for music and falls in love with the trumpet. Legendary trumpeter Art Hazzard takes Rick under his wing and teaches him all he knows about playing. ...more about Young Man with a Horn
DVD from $3.99
(15 sellers)
20
2.6574
Midge Kelly, hitchhiking west with lame brother Connie, is hustled unprepared into a pro boxing match. Though he's severely beaten, manager Tommy Haley finds him promising. ...more about Champion
Actor Awards
- Academy Awards, USA - Best Actor in a Leading Role
DVD from $6.78
(4 sellers)
21
2.6292
A secret US agency behind the unscrupulous Childres gathers children with parapsychologic abilities and trains them to become killers in war situations. ...more about Fury
DVD from $5.99
(11 sellers)
22
2.5799
Dempsey Rae, a cowboy with no clear aim in life, winds up working on a spread with a hard lady owner just arrived from the East. She needs a tough new top hand and uses all her means of persuasion to get Rae to take the job. ...more about Man Without a Star
- Not Available on DVD
23
2.5730
After the long career of lawman that made him a legend, Wyatt Earp deciedes to quit and join his brothers in Tombstone, Arizona. There he would see them in feud with Clantons, local clan of thugs and cattle thieves. ...more about Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Actor Awards
- Laurel Awards - Top Male Action Star
DVD from $3.66
(12 sellers)
25
2.5150
Jim Craig has lived his first 18 years in the mountains of Australia on his father's farm. The death of his father forces him to go to the low lands to earn enough money to get the farm back on its feet. ...more about Man from Snowy River
DVD from $6.88
(14 sellers)
26
2.3992
Spanning three generations, the Grombergs are a highly successful, but somewhat dysfunctional New York family. Patriarch Mitchell Gromberg is having difficulty coming to grips with his mortality. ...more about It Runs in the Family
DVD from $9.99
(9 sellers)
27
2.3260
Captain Rockwell Torrey and Commander Paul Eddington are part of the Navy's effort to recuperate from, and retaliate for, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. ...more about In Harm's Way
DVD from $3.90
(11 sellers)
28
2.2934
Messenger asks a friend to check into a list of names before leaving on a trip. When his plane is blown out of the sky, the matter becomes more serious. As his friend checks into the list, each seems to have died in mysterious circumstances. ...more about List of Adrian Messenger
- Not Available on DVD
29
2.2500
Boxing champion Harry Agensky, the Polish Prince, now an elderly widower and a stroke victim, takes speech lessons and fears confinement in an old age home. ...more about Diamonds
DVD from $6.39
(10 sellers)
30
2.2026
Eugene O'Neill's updated version of the Orestaia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamem--er, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving daughter (Lavinia). ...more about Mourning Becomes Electra
DVD from $12.79
(7 sellers)
31
2.1765
Uncle Joe is ageing. He's also a millionaire. That's why his family is trying so very hard to get into his good books. They all want a piece of his empire. Unfortunately Uncle Joe isn't as stupid as his family thinks he is. ...more about Greedy
DVD from $3.92
(11 sellers)
32
2.1275
The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into ...more about Brotherhood
DVD from $11.70
(3 sellers)
33
2.0590
An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his jewish roots. ...more about Cast a Giant Shadow
DVD from $6.10
(10 sellers)
34
2.0243
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise. ...more about Oscar
DVD from $6.26
(10 sellers)
35
1.9916
The cowboy Handsome Stranger will escort miss Charming Jones to get a large sum of money from her father, Parody Jones. ...more about Villain
DVD from $13.26
(12 sellers)
36
1.9213
A tough marshal with political ambitions leads an elite posse to capture a notorious criminal. He succeeds, but instead of cheering him, the public turns against him. ...more about Posse
DVD from $7.63
(7 sellers)
37
1.9117
Charm, intelligence and succes in criminal career doesn't prevent Paris Pitman Jr. to start doing ten years in territory prison. However, those years should pass quickly because of an enormous loot previously stashed away. ...more about There Was a Crooked Man...
DVD from $8.68
(11 sellers)
38
1.8848
Architect Larry Coe has a wife and family, but becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault, a neighbor with her own family. The two lovers are forced to face the choice between love and loyalty. ...more about Strangers When We Meet
DVD from $3.95
(9 sellers)
39
1.8615
Johnny Hawks, a former Indian fighter, returns to the West after the Civil War. He reacquaints himself with the Indian band led by Red Cloud. Red Cloud's beautiful daughter has now grown into womanhood... ...more about Indian Fighter
DVD from $5.80
(8 sellers)
40
1.8570
Three loosely connected love stories. The first story: Paula is a talented dancer who cannot truly live unless she dances. But has a heart condition, which means she cannot live if she does. ...more about Story of Three Loves
- Not Available on DVD
41
1.8461
Harry and Archie are released from prison ready to collect their Social Security. ...more about Tough Guys
- Not Available on DVD
42
1.8192
This documentary about Walt Disney looks at his life both in and out of his famous animation studios. ...more about Walt: The Man Behind the Myth
DVD from $19.11
(8 sellers)
43
1.8155
Eddie is a very rich man who has everything he wants; money, family, success. But a car crash is all that needs to make him reconsider the life he leads. Searching for the happiness he lost, he remembers his one time lover, Gwen. ...more about Arrangement
DVD from $12.71
(10 sellers)
44
1.7820
Brendan O'Malley arrives at the Mexican home of old flame Belle Breckenridge to find her married to a drunkard getting ready for a cattle drive to Texas. ...more about Last Sunset
Actor Awards
- Laurel Awards - Top Action Performance
DVD from $12.34
(12 sellers)
45
1.7716
Frankie Madison returns to New York after 14 years in prison. ...more about I Walk Alone
- Not Available on DVD
46
1.7396
A once powerful, but now ailing and remorseful father desperately seeks out his estranged son. After exhausting all conventional resources, he reluctantly visits a mystic who offers to show him three "visions" of his son's life. ...more about Illusion
- Not Available on DVD
48
1.6880
The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War. ...more about Devil's Disciple
- Not Available on DVD
49
1.6724
Missouri 1843: ex-senator Tudlock and scout Summers lead a trek of settlers to Oregon, through more than 2500 kilometers of mostly Indian territory. Tadlock drives his people mercilessly. ...more about Way West
- Not Available on DVD
51
1.4300
An executive in charge of a Middle Eastern nuclear plant discovers that his son is the Anti Christ and sets out to stop him from using the nuclear power at his fingertips to wipe out mankind. ...more about Holocaust 2000
- Not Available on DVD
52
1.4062
Keith Gordon is a creative young man who films the oddball doings of his family and peers. "The Maestro" appears frequently to give him pointers on his techniques. It's almost a film about a young man making the film. ...more about Home Movies
- Not Available on DVD
55
New Federal marshal Len Merrick saves Tim Keith from lynching at the hands of the Roden clan, and hopes to get him to Santa Loma for trial. ...more about Along the Great Divide
- Not Available on DVD
57
This first movie version of the Tennessee Williams play about a faded, aging Southern belle, her shy, crippled daughter and her "selfish dreamer" of a son more or less sticks to the original story, except for a compromise ending which strives to be more ...more about Glass Menagerie
- Not Available on DVD
59
An over-the-hill movie producer (Kirk Douglas) marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian (Alexis Smith) just to please his spoiled daughter (Deborah Raffin) who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy (George ...more about Jacqueline Susann's Once Is Not Enough
- Not Available on DVD
60
Hans Muller is a Jewish refugee from Germany. Relocating to Israel after World War II, he can not overcome the psychological effects of the war. After attacking a policeman, Hans becomes a fugitive, traveling through Israel with a teenage boy. ...more about Juggler
- Not Available on DVD
61
Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. ...more about Light at the Edge of the World
DVD from $15.99
(8 sellers)
62
Owen Waterbury, bestselling novelist, recruits aspiring writer Stephanie 'Steve' Gaylord as his latest of many secretaries. ...more about My Dear Secretary
DVD from $5.16
(7 sellers)
64
In this sprawling, star-laden film, we see the struggles of various French resistance factions to regain control of Paris near the end of World War II. ...more about Is Paris Burning?
DVD from $7.18
(11 sellers)
67
This public service short for U.S. Savings Bonds starts out with Rowan and Martin arriving at a TV studio, ostensibly to host a show. ...more about Rowan & Martin at the Movies
- Not Available on DVD
71
The head of a large publishing empire is dismayed when a top army general is about to be appointed to an atomic energy committee. ...more about Top Secret Affair
- Not Available on DVD
74
After County Attorney Dave Connors (Cornel Wilde) helps Julian Norman (Anne Baxter) with her shiftless father, Jefferson Norman (Henry Hull), she leaves Jericho, Kansas to college to study for a law degree. ...more about Walls of Jericho
- Not Available on DVD
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